Famous Black American Mathematicians

Who built America's first clock, predicted a solar eclipse and helped lay out the streets of Washington, D.C.?

• Mark Dean

• John Urschel

• Benjamin Banneker

• Elbert Frank Cox

Who invented the Illusion Transmitter (1980) --- the first of its kind in the field of 3D-imagery and is the basis for modern 3D-televisions, video games, and movies?

• Valerie Thomas

• Lonnie Johnson

• Annie Easley

• Mae Carol Jemison

Who was first Black to earn a Ph.D in mathematics not only in the United States, but in the entire world.

• Euphemia Lofton Haynes

• John Urschel

• Mark Dean

• Elbert Frank Cox

Who is famous for being the first African-American woman to earn a Ph.D. in mathematics and after earning her Ph.D., embarked on a 47-year career of advocacy for students of color, improving schools, and overcoming the harmful effects of racial segregation.

• Mae Carol Jemison

• Valerie Thomas

• Katherine Johnson

• Euphemia Lofton Haynes

Who is currently working towards a Ph.D. in mathematics from MIT where their mathematical fields of interest include graph theory, numerical linear algebra, and machine learning?

• Katherine Johnson

• Mark Dean

• John Urschel

• Fern Hunt

Who worked in applied mathematics and mathematical biology and has been involved with biomathematics, patterns in genetic variation, and chaos theory? Their current work is focused on encouraging women and minority students to pursue graduate degrees in mathematics and other STEM fields.

• Euphemia Lofton Haynes

• Mae Carol Jemison

• Fern Hunt

• Valerie Thomas

Who is a famous inventor, mathematician, and engineer who holds over 120 patents and has worked on the development of the stealth bomber and invented the Super Soaker?

• John Urschel

• Lonnie Johnson

• Mark Dean

• Elbert Frank Cox

Who, during their 35-year career at NASA , held a reputation for being a master of complex manual calculations, helped pioneer the use of computer programming for performing complex calculations and received the Presidential Medal of Freedom?

• Annie Easley

• Valerie Thomas

• Mae Carol Jemison

• Katherine Johnson